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Assault in Vinegar Hill and More Brooklyn Briefs

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Published Aug. 30, 2010 at 5:00 a.m.

- Fire devastates row of businesses on Flatbush Ave. early Sunday morning. NY Daily News ... - New data suggest the summer of 2010 is the hottest on record. Huff Post ... - That's low: A guy broke into his ex-girlfriend's apartment in Sunset Park and broke her turtle tank. Brooklyn Eagle ... - Stabbed cabbie worries about feeding his family. NY Magazine ... - A Brooklyn woman was caught on surveillance video sneaking under a light pole after it fell down - then claiming it

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MEDIA: COBBLE HILL: MEDIA: That’s my money! Millman backtracks from pension pledge

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Published Aug. 28, 2010 at 11:00 p.m.

Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com ... By Thomas Tracy ... The Brooklyn Paper ... Assemblywoman Joan Millman has backed off a pledge to stop taking her public school teacher’s pension — and instead slammed her challenger for linking her to so-called “double-dipping” lawmakers who draw their state legislative pensions even as they work at the state house ... The 13-year lawmaker had said in an Aug. 20 debate that she would defer her pension if she

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BOERUM HILL: ‘Blue’ note! Ice cream parlor to close in rent dispute

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Published Aug. 24, 2010 at 11:00 p.m.

See this story at BrooklynPaper.com ... By Joe Anuta ... for The Brooklyn Paper ... One of the engines of gentrification in Boerum Hill has decided to close its doors — because of, well, gentrification ... Blue Marble Ice Cream, which opened three years ago along then-hardscrabble Atlantic Avenue and helped usher in a new era of chi-chi coffee, shops, fashions, and cocktails, will close in October ... Dairy darlings Jennie Dundas and Alexis Miesen cited a rent hike by landlord Manuel Fernandez

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Turning a Corner

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Published Aug. 24, 2010 at 12:23 p.m.

A gritty Clinton Hill corner once known for an open-air drug market and shootings has been reborn as a hot spot for trendy nightlife ...

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MEDIA: COBBLE HILL: MEDIA: Debate week round two! Millman vs. Biviano!

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Published Aug. 23, 2010 at 11:00 p.m.

Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com ... By Thomas Tracy ... The Brooklyn Paper ... Assembly candidate Doug Biviano blasted away at incumbent Joan Millman in a debate last week, hammering her for taking her pension even as she works as a lawmaker, lambasting her for backing transit cuts, and for flip-flopping on housing inside Brooklyn Bridge Park — but the harshest word he had for Millman was that she’s “nice.” ... By our count, Biviano taunted his

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Dangerous Clinton Hill corner transformed into trendy hot spot

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Published Aug. 23, 2010 at 3:40 p.m.

A gritty Clinton Hill corner once known for an open-air drug market and shootings has been reborn as a hot spot for trendy nightlife ...

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GOWANUS: Councilman Steve: Save the D&D Pool!

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Published June 14, 2010 at 11:03 p.m.

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Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com ... By Gary Buiso ... The Brooklyn Paper ... One week after the city announced that it would close the Douglass-Degraw pool this summer, the neighborhood’s councilman called the move disastrous and vowed to open the watering hole for his sweating constituents ... “A lot of families depend on this pool for free recreation,” said Councilman Steve Levin (D–Williamsburg), who convened a meeting on Monday night at an

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DINING: This author dishes on her favorite Brooklyn eats

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Published June 14, 2010 at 11:00 p.m.

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See this story at BrooklynPaper.com ... By Meredith Deliso ... The Brooklyn Paper ... Sherri Eisenberg has traveled the world as a travel writer, and has found that nothing compares to Brooklyn’s culinary scene ... “Brooklyn has such an exciting food scene,” said Eisenberg. “It’s hard to think of other places that have as diverse the offerings as Brooklyn does.” ... Eisenberg would know — she just published a handbook to the borough’s food scene, titled “Food Lovers’ Guide to

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Building of the Day: 70 Eighth Avenue

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Published June 14, 2010 at 3:30 p.m.

The BOTD is a no-frills look at interesting structures of all types and from all neighborhoods. There will be old, new, important, forgotten, public, private, good and bad. Whatever strikes our fancy. We hope you enjoy ... Address: 70 Eighth Avenue, corner of Union St ... Name: Mrs. M.V. Phillips House ... Neighborhood: Park Slope (Park Slope Historic District) ... Year Built: 1887 ... Architectural Style: Queen Anne/Romanesque Revival ... Architect: ... L.V. Holden ... Landmarked: Yes ...

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Food Co-op May Lease Space on Putnam

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Published June 14, 2010 at 10:01 a.m.

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This would have pretty major implications for a longtime troubled corner of Clinton Hill: The Clinton Hill Blog is reporting that the Greene Hill Food Co-op, a nascent food co-operative that has been in the works for a couple of years now, is considering renting a row of small storefronts at 10-16 Putnam Avenue for its permanent headquarters; this stretch includes the mysterious and infamous Putnam Candy Store, profiled last year on The Times' Local Blog ... Combined with the new bar that's

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